is helping too. the boom in as production combined with energy efficiency has driven imports to a near 20-year low and gas production to an all-time high. and renewable energy production has doubled. of course, we need a lot more new jobs. but there are already more than 3 million jobs open and unfilled in america. mostly because the people who apply for them don't get yet have the required skills to do them. so even as we get americans more jobs, we have to prepare more americans for the new jobs that are actually going to be created. the old economy is not coming back. we've got to build a new one and educate people to do those jobs.

the president -- the president and his education secretary supported community colleges in working together to train people for jobs that are actually open in their communities. and even more important, after a decade in which exploding college costs have increased the dropout rate so much that the percentage of our young people with degrees has gone down so much, that we have dropped to 16th in the world. in the percentage of young people with college degrees. so, the president's student loan reform is more important than ever. here's what it does. here's what it does. you need to tell every voter where you live about this. it lowers the cost of federal student loans, and even more important, it gives students the right to repay those loans as a clear fixed percentage of their

income for up to 20 years. now, what does this mean? what does this mean? think of it. it means no one will ever have to drop out of college again for fear they can't repay their debt. and it means, it means that if someone wants to take a job with a modest income, a teacher, a police officer, if they want to be a small town doctor in a rural area, they won't have to turn those jobs down because they don't pay enough to repay the debt. their debt obligation will be determined by their salary. this will change the future for young americans. i don't know about you, but all these issues i know we're better

off because president obama made the decisions he did. now, that brings me to health care. the republicans call it derisively obama care. they say they will repeal it. are they right? let's take a look at what's actually happened so far. first, individuals in businesses have already gotten more than $1 billion in refunds from insurance companies because the law requires 80% to 85% of your premium to go to your health care, not profits or promotion. and the gains are greater than that because a bunch of

insurance companies have applied to lower the rate to comply with requirements. 3 million young people between 19 and 25 are insured for the first time because their parents' policy can cover them. so millions of seniors are receiving preventive care, all the way from breast cancer screenings to tests for heart problems and scores of other things. and younger people are getting them, too. boy, soon the insurance companies, not the government, the insurance companies will have many of new customers, many of them middle class people with preexisting conditions who could never get insurance before. now, finally, listen to this, for the last two years, after going up three times the rate of inflation for a decade, for the last two years, health care

costs have been under 4% in both years for the first time in 50 years. so let me ask you something. are we better off because president obama fought for health care reform? you bet we are. now, there were two other attacks on the president in tampa. i think deserve an answer. first, both governor romney and congressman ryan attacked the president for allegedly robbing medicare. $716 billion. that's the same attack they leveled against the congress in 2010. and they got a lot of votes on it. but it's not true. look, here's what really happened. you be the judge. here's what really happened. there were no cuts to benefit at

all, none. what the president did was to save money, by taking the recommendations of a commission of professionals, to cut unwarranted subsidies to providers and insurance companies that were not making people healthier. and were not necessary to get the providers to provide the service. and instead of rating medicare, he used the savings to close the donut hole in the medicare drug program. and you all got to listen carefully, this is really important, and to add eight years to the life of the medicare trust fund so it is solvent until 2024.

so president obama and the democrats didn't weaken medicare. they strengthened medicare. now, when congressman ryan looked into that tv camera and attacked president obama's medicare savings as, quote, the biggest, coldest power play, i didn't know whether to laugh or cry. because that $716 billion is exactly to the dollar the same amount of medicare savings that he had in his own budget. you got to give one thing, it takes some brass to attack a guy for doing what you did.

so, we're having a good time with this, getting serious now, i want you to listen. it's important. because a lot of people believe this stuff. now, at least on this issue, and this one issue, governor romney has been consistent. he -- he attacked president obama, too. but he actually wants to repeal the savings and give the money back to the insurance company. he wants to go back to the old system which means we'll reopen the doughnut hole and force seniors to pay more for drugs.

and we'll reduce the life of the medicare trust fund by eight years. so if he's elected and if he does what he promised to do, medicare will now go broke in 2016. think about that. that means after all we won't have to wait until the voucher program kicks in in 2023 to see the end of medicare as we know it. they're going to do it to us sooner than we thought. now, folks, this is serious because it gets worse. and you won't be laughing when i finish telling you this. they also want to block grant medicaid and cut it by a third over the coming ten years. of course, that's going to really hurt a lot of poor kids. but that's not all. a lot of folks don't know it,

but nearly two-thirds of the medicare is spent on nursing home care for medicare seniors who are eligible for medicaid. it's going to end medicare as we know it. and as a lot of that money is also spent to help people with disabilities. including a lot of middle-class families whose kids have downs syndrome or autism or other severe conditions. and honestly, let's think about it, if that happens, i don't want those families are going to do. i know what i'm going to do. i'm going to do everything i can to see that it doesn't happen. we can't let it happen. we can't.

now, wait a minute, let's look -- let's look at the other big charge the republicans made. it's a real doozie. they actually have charged and run ads saying that president obama wants to weaken the work requirements in the welfare reform bill i signed that moves millions of people from welfare to work. now, wait. you need to know, here's what happened. nobody ever tells you what really happened. here's what happened. when some republican governors asked if they could have waivers to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the obama

administration listened. because we all know it's hard for even people with good work histories to get jobs today. so moving folks from welfare to work is a real challenge. and the administration agreed to give waivers to those governors and others only if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20%, and they could keep the waivers only if they did increase employment. now, did i make myself clear? the requirement was for more work, not less. so, this is personal to me, we moved millions of people off welfare. it was one of the reasons in the eight years i was president, we had 100 times as many people move out of poverty into middle class than had been under the previous 12 years. 100 times as many. it's a big deal.

but i am telling you the claim that president obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true. but they keep on running ads claiming it. you want to know why? their campaign poster said we are not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers. now, finally, i can say that is true. i couldn't have said it better myself. and i hope you and every american within the sound of my voice remembers it every time they see one of those ads and it turns into an ad to re-elect barack obama and keep the

fundamental principles of personal empowerment and moving everybody to get a job into work as soon as we can. n now, let's talk about the debt. today, interest rates are low, lower than the rate of inflation. people are practically paying to us. borrow money, holding their money for them. but it become a big problem when the economy grows and interest rates start to rise. we've got to deal with this long-term debt problem or it will deal with up. it will gobble up the percentage of health care and science and technology. we've got to deal with it. now, what has the president done? he has offered a reasonable plan of $4 trillion in debt reduction over a decade with $2.5 trillion

coming -- for every $2.5 trillion in spending cuts, he raises a dollar in revenues. 2 1/2 to 1. and he has tight controls on future spending. that's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the sens sensenbaugh commission. first the romney plan fails the test of fiscal responsibility. the numbers just don't add up. i mean, consider this, what would you do if you had to -- somebody says, oh, we've got a big debt problem, we've got to reduce the debt. what's the first thing to do? well, to reduce the debt, we've got to have another $5 trillion in tax cuts. we'll make the debt cut bigger before we start to get out of it. now, when you say, what are you going to do about this $5

trillion you just added on. they'll say, oh, we'll make it up by eliminating loopholes in the tax cuts. so then you ask, well, which loopholes and how much? you know what they say? see me about that after the election. i'm not making it up. that's their position. see me about that after the election. now, people ask me all the time how we got to our surplus budgets in a row. what new ideas do we bring to washington? i always give a one word answer -- arithmetic. arithmetic. if they stay within a $5 trillion tax cut plan in a debt

reduction plan, the arithmetic tells us, no matter what they say, one of three things is about to happen. one, assuming they try to do they'll try to do what they say to do, get rid of that, cutting those deductions. one, they'll have to eliminate so many deductions like the ones for home mortgages and charitable giving that middle class families will see their tax bills go up an average of $2,000, while anybody who makes $3 million or more will see their tax bill go down $2850,000. -- $250,000. or, two, they'll have to cut so much spending that they'll obliterate the budget for the national parks for ensuring clean air, clean water, safe food, safe air travel. they'll cut back on college loan, early childhood education,

nutrition programs, all the programs that empower middle class families and help poor kids. oh, they'll cut back on investments in roads and bridges and science and technology and biomedical, that's what they'll do. that will hurt the middle class and the poor and put the future on hold to give tax cuts, upper income people who have been getting it all along. or, three, in spite of all the rhetoric, what they've been doing for 30 years, they'll go and cut taxes, way more than they cut spending, especially with that defense increase, and they'll just explode the debt and weaken the economy. and they'll destroy the federal government's ability to help you by letting interest gobble up all your tax payments. don't you ever forget when you hear them talking about this. that republican economic policy quadrupled the national debt

before i took office in the 12 years before i took office. and doubled the debt in the eight years after i left. because it defied arithmetic. it was a highly inconvenient thing for them in our debates that i was just a country boy from arkansas and i came from a place where people still thought 2 and 2 was 4. it's arithmetic. we simply cannot afford to give the reins of government to someone who will double-down on trickle-down. now, think about this. president obama -- president

obama's plan cuts the debt, honors our values, brightens the future of our children our families and our nation. it's a heck of a lot better. it passes the arithmetic test and far more important, it passes the values test. my fellow americans, all of us in this grand hall and everybody watching at home, when we vote in this election, we'll be deciding what kind of country we want to live in. if you want a winner-take-all, you're on your own society, you should support the republican ticket. but if you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibility, a we're all in this together society, you should vote for barack obama and joe biden. if you -- if you want -- if you

want america -- if you want every american to vote and you think it is wrong to change voting procedures, just to reduce the turnout of younger, poor, minority and disabled voters, you should support barack obama. and if you think, if you think the president was right to open the doors of american opportunity to all those young immigrants brought here when they were young so they can serve in the military or go to college, must vote for barack

obama. if you want to a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the american dream is really alive and well again and where the united states maintains its leadership as a force for peace and justice and prosperity in this highly competitive world, you have to vote for barack obama. i love our country so much and i know we're coming back. for more than 200 years, through every crisis, we've always come back. people have our demise ever since george washington was criticized for being mediocre

with a bad set of wooden false teeth. so far every american that's bid against america has lost money because we always come back. we come through every fire a little stronger and a little better. and we do it because in the end, we decide to champion the cause for our our founders pledged their lives, their fortunes, they're sacred honor, because of forming a more perfect union. my fellow americans, if that is what you want, if that is what you believe, you must vote and you must re-elect president barack obama. god bless yound god bless america. ♪ don't stop thinking about tomorrow ♪ >> and there he was, the former president, bill clinton. george, the old pro comes out of

retirement, filled with vitality and does he know how to ride the wave inside. >> there is president obama right there coming out on the stage. after getting the best nomination a man could hope for. president obama has been running for president about a year and a half, 2011. president clinton made the best argument. it was part tutorial, part pep rally. he did a more coherent answer that he heard for the obama campaign and laid out the case against mitt romney. >> and as i watched mrs. obama watching him defend her husband, there are tears in her is. >> convention speakers are under

convention rhetoric. you have to admire the sheer artistry under which bill clinton exercise his literary license. i enjoy the histrionics, i believe the fact checkers that he mentioned checking things, such as, he said we had declining inflation in health care costs for two years and he ascribed that to obama care which hasn't come into effect yet. the fact is, he did raise a point that i expect to come back to haunt romney in the debates when he said mitt romney promises to balance the tax cuts with deductions that he will not mention. there's a reason for that, every one of the deductions that he has to cut are going to be difficult and popular. the fact is, the man up there now, the president with the former president, has a very tough act to follow tomorrow night. >> i thought he made a powerful

compelling argument as to why the american people should rehire president obama. his presentation was thoughtful, it was powerful. more importantly, it was emotional. people will connect with some of the arguments he made about the way president obama handled one of the worst crisis this country has faced since the great depression. >> and after that, i get it, i know it, i've been there, from the perspective of a president. >> he came out part professor, part teacher. it was slightly funny. a perfect tone. as donna mentioned along the way, i think he helped seriously close the enthusiasm gap. >> jake tapper. >> diane, the crowd here is chanting "fired up, ready to

go." it's an obama campaign chant from 2007 and 2008. they hung on every word from former president bill clinton who deviated from prepared text quite often. using his prepared speech as more of a guide. he was clearly relishing, making a case. it was a very emotional and powerful speech from the former president. president obama came out and gave him a hug. personally applauded him. president clinton said thanks. >> there you have it again. what a night here at the democratic national convention. as george was saying, big act to follow tomorrow night, the president will be speaking tomorrow night in front of this same crowd. a man, bill clinton, cool on the outside, burning on the inside for the american dream tomorrow night. >> you can see on abcnews.com all night long. terry moran will be here with a special edition of "nightline." and i'll see you on "good

morning america" with a full wrap-up. >> good night. >> announcer: this has been a presentation of abc news. . orioles magic reborn in the city of baltimore. >> another warm humid night and are we why for a foggy

start tomorrow? the forecast in a minute. >> his behavior is the same as -- it's all about him. >> another woman speaking about what she said happened while working for john leopold. >> sky mile members for delta are in for a big surprise. why it may have people cooling their jets. the news starts right now. >> we start tonight with a growing case of orioles fever. they lost to the blue jays by two runs but that's all right. >> here come the yankees. it'll be crazy. orioles fans all came out to honor two of the greatest. they were both into the museume hall of legends here tonight. even after all these years you would think they still played on the same team. they were still joking around, eddie asked about the current version of the orioles and got a little side tracked. >> you know that's --

[inaudible] >> also former orioles, martinez as well as jimmy from loyola and coach gary williams. you know it's so fitting that topping off all the building excitement we will have the iron man. it'll be a bronze statue. it'll be revealed, cal ripkin junior. it'll be shown toll public for the first time tomorrow at 5:15. of course tomorrow is the 17th versiony of 2131 the night that he broke the all time mark. we have you covered for the revealing. tune into the show tomorrow for a preview and i will be live at camden yards at five and six. come on baltimore. we want to see your orioles

pride. help us cheer on the orioles as we head into -- the end of the season here. send your fan photographs to pix at wmar.com. be sure to put orioles in the subject line and then check out all of your fellow fans in the slide show section right there on the website. abc 2news.com. >> let's talk football. the nfl season started tonight with the giants playing the cowboys. ravens fans got to wait a little longer to see our team. they open monday night at mnt bank stadium. power plant live preparing to help them celebrate. >> the whole week is just a big party and we are finishing with the monday night home game. national broadcast, couldn't be more excited. we will have a division rival here at the stadium. monday night game. you can feel it in the. > >> ravens play the bengals monday night. kickoff at seven. they want to make the playoffs for the 5th straight season. let's hope. >> let's hope for good

weather. we need it thursday through monday. early september baltimore feels like mid-july in florida. >> steam out there. we will have possibly fog in the morning. chance for showers at times over the next few days but most of the big key nights looking good. >> good. >> take a look. we check the moisture level out there. it is humid out there tonight. dew point of 71, in frederick 72 annapolis, that is extremely human. we will be up to 100% humidity by two or three this morning. warm, humid conditions. again leading to another warm afternoon tomorrow as we see the temperatures surging up into the 90-degree range by around two to three tomorrow. hot, humid day and by the way things heating up in the gulf and out in the atlantic. a very active tropic. we will talk much more about storms coming up. >> tonight a woman said she was one of leopold's angels is

speaking out about what she said she a's he is facing criminal charges and lawsuits and now one of the woman who worked in his office says its time to come forward. >> i saw things that i felt were wrong and she needed help with her case. >> reporter: joann said she spoke up to help a woman who has filed a lawsuit against leopold claiming gender discrimination, sexual discrimination. >> not getting assignments, he stopped assigning things for me to go to. >> reporter: she said after she started talking to the attorneys her bosses started keeping closer tabs on her. >> spying, they were spying on me. one of the other representatives in my office was told by eric and john to spy on me. >> reporter: hours after

leopold won the election she said she was let go. >> i was assisting another person in talking to their attorney to try to give her information on what happened to her. it was revenge. >> reporter: she filed a complaint. she eventually fed a lawsuit in march of this year. she said there are more witnesses and at least two other alleged victims but speaking up takes courage. >> takes such a risk because you know if you come forward you could get fired. you know people have families, jobs are hard to find. there is health insurance. to go out and come forward you know you don't know the support you will get. >> reporter: she said the legal process will take months if not years to work itself out but said the citizens deserve better. >> he